Road Trip Deja Vu

Back in July....Our glorious summer ended with saying goodbye to Arizona. If you recall, we had packed everything up into a garage unit in May and spent two months crashing at a friend's house while we figured out where we were headed. (Julie- thank you, thank you friend!!) All too soon, it was time to move. At the end of July, we packed all of our possessions onto a moving truck. Side note: I would definitely recommend this for anyone moving long distance. It was great - we loaded the truck, they drove it. No hassle.

       Shout out to Dave and Dave for both volunteering to sweat buckets loading up a moving truck in the disgusting heat that is Arizona in July! Lucky it was fairly easy to just unload the garage where everything was stored and pack it onto the truck. With this moving company, you pay for the footage you use on the truck, so it became a big game for the guys to fit it in as little space as possible.

   That left just us with a few bags and the car. With our odometer set to zero, we began our trek across the country. One car, 2 people, 2 dogs, and 7 states to cover. Road trip!

 

The miles passed relatively quickly without much to report on. Just imagine us dancing and singing and you get the idea of how we spent our time. Since we had recently done a road trip to Iowa, the dogs were used to spending long hours in the car and slept almost exclusively. There were however, few times when both dogs were in the back seat. Cleo spent the trip attempting to get up with us to sleep.

                 

Something interesting we learned - my car's trip odometer only goes up to 1000 before resetting itself. So that was actually 1,153.7 miles into the trip when we entered Arkansas. And yes, Cleo continued her sneaky assaults on the front seat. On one particular construction-slowed drive, I managed to document what this sneaking looked like.

 

 Three days after we began, we crossed into our new state - surrounded by fog-capped mountains. The most fascinating part of this whole drive had been watching the landscape slowly turn from brown desert brush to brilliant green trees as we drove further east. We were definitely east now!


Let's make that officially 2,195.9 miles later - and we arrived at our new home in Durham. Can you tell we were just a wee bit excited to be out of the car?